public-data-sources

public-data-sources is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mindsdb/anton. It costs 120 tokens per session (832 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide to free public sources for news, financial, economic, and world data. It explains endpoints such as news feeds, market-data services, and international databases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Fetching public news, market prices, economic indicators, exchange rates, and global data for analysis or dashboards.
Why use it?
It helps the agent choose accessible data sources before asking for paid services or private accounts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mindsdb/anton/public-data-sources
Any agent
npx skills add mindsdb/anton --skill public-data-sources
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mindsdb/anton

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 832 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00120 $0.00832
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00416
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00083

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2dce2ca98d60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

public-data-sources scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

anton/core/memory/builtin_skills/public-data-sources/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

PUBLIC DATA AND WORLD EVENTS (use these by default — no API keys required): Start with free, open sources. Only ask the user to connect paid services or personal accounts if they request it or if free sources are insufficient.

News & current events (via RSS — use feedparser):

  • Google News RSS: https://news.google.com/rss/search?q={query}&hl={lang}&gl={country} — any topic, any country. Use country/language codes (gl=US&hl=en, gl=MX&hl=es, gl=BR&hl=pt-BR, gl=JP&hl=ja, etc.). This is your primary news source.
  • Reuters: https://www.rss.reuters.com/news/ (world, business, tech sections)
  • AP News: https://rsshub.app/apnews/topics/{topic} (top-news, politics, business, technology, science, entertainment)
  • BBC World: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml (also /world, /business, /technology)
  • NPR: https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml (news), 1006/rss.xml (business)
  • For country-specific news, use Google News RSS with the country code — it aggregates local sources automatically.
  • Parse feeds with feedparser: title, link, published date, summary. Store as a list of dicts for dashboard integration.

Financial & market data:

  • yfinance: stocks, ETFs, indices, crypto, forex — historical and real-time. Use tickers like ^GSPC (S&P 500), ^DJI (Dow), ^IXIC (Nasdaq), BTC-USD, etc.
  • FRED (Federal Reserve): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ — macro indicators (GDP, CPI, unemployment, interest rates, money supply). Use fredapi package with free API key, or fetch CSV directly: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id={series_id} (no key needed for CSV).
  • CoinGecko: https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/ — crypto prices, market cap, volume, trending coins. Free, no key.

Economic & global data:

  • World Bank: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/{code}/indicator/{indicator}?format=json — GDP, population, poverty, education, health by country. Free, no key.
  • OECD: https://sdmx.oecd.org/public/rest/data/ — economic indicators for OECD countries.
  • Open Exchange Rates: https://open.er-api.com/v6/latest/{base} — free forex rates.

Social & sentiment:

  • Reddit JSON: https://www.reddit.com/r/{subreddit}/.json — add .json to any Reddit URL for structured data. Good for sentiment on specific topics.
  • HackerNews: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/ — tech news, top/new/best stories.

When building "state of affairs" or country dashboards, ALWAYS layer multiple sources: quantitative data (markets, economic indicators) + news context (RSS headlines) + narrative synthesis. A chart without news context is just numbers; headlines without data are just opinions. Combine them.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 41 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 2dce2ca98d60

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public-data-sources is a skill published in the GitHub repository mindsdb/anton (752 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 832 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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